liked this article a lot.Deep down we all know this-- but it's a great reminder.Also liked this quote from it:"Let’s choose community.Let’s stop comparing.Let’s start connecting.Some days when I sit down at my laptop, instead of choosing to be an observer via Facebook, I choose to be a friend via email.Instead of scrolling through someone else’s carefully curated images, I use those few seconds to send a text to a person I really know and really love and really want to be connected to."

For the purpose of her article I completely agree with her point of view.I think this idea of connection will make its way back into the forefront of the Internet as continued exposure to social media grows.

However, I did read an article and I forget where or when (likely a psych class in school) that analyzed two mothers.One mother tweeted the best part of her day everyday and the other tweeted the worst...or something like that.Essentially they were proving that looking back at the happy moments helps us with our self perception of happiness and satisfaction and actually works to help us make it through those tough situations that arise in the future.By reminding ourselves that things will be alright and great and have been in the

I actually really loved this article.I thought it was so well-spoken and I 100% agreed with her that we need that connection rather than compare.I pose a question though: if our online lives are so curated, how can they ever be completely accurate?Is that the point?Will we ever reach a point where you see the whole of someone online and can take them for what they truly are?

I too have read that article (actually, if Hoffman can chime in at some point I have a slight memory of him describing that article to Sam and I in Israel...let's see how good my memory is.)

I can't find it after a quick 15 second Google search (should have used Bing.)

In any case--Sam got the gist--the mother was tweeting frustrations about her children.When she looked back on her timeline (or a friend did) it looked like she viewed them negatively and that impacted her happiness (I think?)

So the moral was that as soon as she started tweeting a positive fact about them, her whole perspective and happiness level changed for the better.

I use Timehop (you are my main timehop likers) and I get my tweets/fb everything from a year ago that day.I like seeing the good and the bad, honestly because more than anything I just laugh--I'm like omg the weather did suck!Or oh man, thats the night I lost my phone.I love timehop because it paints a full picture for me, but at the same time, I'm someone who takes to twitter to be happy and to vent.